Pen-holder



(No Model.)

G. H. RICHARDSON.

PEN HOLDER.

No. 444,304. Patented Jan. 6, 1891.

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GEORGE H. RICHARDSON, OF OLD TOlVN, MAINE.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,304, dated January 6, 1891. Application filed November 21, 1890. Serial No. 372,153. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. RICHARD- SON, of Old Town, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pen-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a hand pen-h older for ruling purposes; and it consists in a hand pen-holder for ruling or making with the pen it carries waved or irregular lines, substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention essentially differs from those attachments to ruling-machines for making waved lines, in some of which awaved wheel and vibrating lever operated by it and connected with the pen-beam of an ordinary ruling-machine has been used, and in which the paper to be ruled is drawn beneath the pen, while in my invention the penholder is guided and held by the hand for travel of the pen over the paper as required at the option of the penman, and the same constitutes a new article of manufacture, for the purpose named.

The article, as ahand device, willbe found especially useful to architects and draftsmen in making drawings and fancy borders, in legal and other documents, in ruling money checks and drafts, and in business offices generally, and for various purposes, and by it more striking, neater, and more effective work can be done than by an ordinary penholder, and with no more trouble.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the'figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a penholder in part embodying myinvention, with pen attached, and as in position for being held by the hand for making by the pen a waved line on a piece or sheet of paper. Fig. 1 represents a plan View of a certain waved line that may be made by the pen. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the penholder with pen attached. Fig. 3 is a pcripheral' view of a grooved wheel or roller used to vibrate the pen to produce the waved line shown in Fig. 1 as the whole instrument is drawn over the paper. Fig. tisapartials ide view of the pen broken, illustrating a modifled means for vibrating the pen, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same on the line 00 :1: in Fig. 4.

The pen-stock or pen-holderproper is made in two parts, dividing it longitudinally and transversely for a portion of its length, to wit: a main portion A and a front portion B, which latter is suitably constructed at its forward end to carry the pen O. Said front portion B is pivoted-say near its forward end, as by a pivot b, substantially at right angles to the pen--to the forward part of the main portion A, which not only unites the two parts A and B together, but serves to provide for the part B, carrying the pen to be vibrated from the pivot b as a center of motion, so as to impart the necessary wavy motion to the ruling-pen as it is run or drawn over the paper D. The device shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 for thus vibrating the part B consists in part of a wheel or roller E, carried by the main piece A of the holder back of the pivot b, and so that the wheel rests on the paper as the whole instrument is held in an inclined position by the hand for drawing the pen over the paper. This wheel has a zigzag groove 0 male in and around its periphery corresponding in shape to whatever the waved line or lines is required to be on the pa per, and with this groove, a stud or pin d, attached to the part B back of the pivot Z), engages, so that as the wheel moves over the paper it will laterally vibrate the part B and with it the pen 0 on the opposite or advance side of the pivot b. This pivot is not necessarily restricted to any precise position on the part B, and the pattern of the groove in the wheel, it is obvious, may be changed to suit the particular waved line on the paper it is desired to produce.

In Figs. t and 5 is shown a modification in the device for vibrating the part B, which consists of two wheels F. and E arranged one on each side of the part A, the wheel E, having on its inner face bevel-gear teeth which meet with the teeth of a bevel-pinion F, journaled in a recess in the part A, which wheel F is provided with an eccentric-pin f, which engages a longitudinal slot g, formed in the part B. By this device the penis vibrated in the manner hereinbefore described.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As a new article of manufacture, a hand pen-holder adapted to carry a ruling-pen for making waved or irregular lines, the same consisting of a stock or holder proper divided into two parts interinediately of its length and pivoted together to admit of the lateral vibration of its one or forward pen-carrying part upon the other part of the holder, and of a device arranged to rest and travel upon the paper to be ruled and operating to automatically vibrate said pen-carrying part fori1uparting to the pen its required wavy motion, substantially as specified.

2. In a hand pen-holder adapted to carrya ruling-pen for making waved or irregular lines, the combination of adivided pen stock or holder consisting of a main part A and forward pen-carryin g part B, pivoted together to admit of the lateral vibration of the latter part, a lower wheel or roller E, carried by the main part A and provided with a waved groove in and around its peripher and a pin or stud attached to the vibrating part B at a suitable distance from the pivot uniting the two parts A and B, and arranged to engage with the groove in the Wheel or roller, essentially as shown and described.

GEORGE ll. RICHARDSON.

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CHAS. 1L MONTAGUE, N. II. A. GAMMON. 

